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Value Wars in the New Periphery: Sustainability, Rural Communities and Agriculture
Sumner, Jennifer - In: Agriculture and Human Values 22 (2005) 3, pp. 303-312
Sustainability has been the subject of prolonged debate within both academic and mainstream literature, rendered all … values. These life values ground sustainability in a multi-scalar web of everyday acts of human community. From this life …
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Environmental Leadership and Consciousness Development: A Case Study Among Canadian SMEs
Boiral, Olivier; Baron, Charles; Gunnlaugson, Olen - In: Journal of Business Ethics 123 (2014) 3, pp. 363-383
The objective of this paper is to explore how the various stages of consciousness development of top managers can influence, in practical terms, their abilities in and commitment to environmental leadership in different types of SMEs. A case study based on 63 interviews carried out in 15...
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Public management and community in rethinking and structuring sustainability: a two-city (USA and Ukraine) comparative analysis
Slava, Svitlana; Condrey, Stephen E. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 3, pp. 243-266
Despite a significant pool of sustainable development literature that appeared during the last decade, the term remains unclear. This study involved a theoretical analysis of definitions of sustainable development to identify the weights of different components, to assess what meanings are...
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Sustainable Development: An Alternative Approach
Kras, Eva - Fakulteta za Management, Univerza na Primorskem
The present modern Western Development model is in chaos, and many fear it is in fact broken. This paper examines the roots of this breakdown and proposes an “Alternative Approach” to follow. Based on the wisdom of visionaries, both past and present, such as Einstein, Gandhi, Laszlo, Harman,...
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Contextual and psychological factors shaping evaluations and acceptability of energy alternatives: Integrated review and research agenda
Perlaviciute, Goda; Steg, Linda - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 35 (2014) C, pp. 361-381
Sustainable energy transitions will be hampered without sufficient public support. Hence, it is important to understand what drives public acceptability of (sustainable) energy alternatives. Evaluations of specific costs, including risks, and benefits of different energy alternatives have been...
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Mindfulness and sustainability
Ericson, Torgeir; Kjønstad, Bjørn Gunaketu; Barstad, … - In: Ecological Economics 104 (2014) C, pp. 73-79
means than material rewards could make an important contribution to sustainability. A wealth of research indicates that …
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Growing the green economy – globally
Henderson, Hazel - In: International Journal of Green Economics 1 (2007) 3/4, pp. 276-298
Strategies for global sustainability and growing the green economy must address current economic models driving today … coefficients are needed for steering societies toward sustainability and quality of life. …
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Corporate Sustainability a Panacea for Growth: Values, Convictions and Acrions
Padmanabhan, G - eSocialSciences - 2014
Can corporate sustainability aid growth, create value and actions on environmental protection? The answer can be … calibrating the corporate sustainability action commands. Please remember that a company is an artificial person with perpetual … existence. The society trusts it to exist for ever to serve posterity ad infinitum. The sustainability has therefore to balance …
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Bringing the “Missing Pillar” into Sustainable Development Goals: Towards Intersubjective Values-Based Indicators
Burford, Gemma; Hoover, Elona; Velasco, Ismael; … - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 7, pp. 3035-3059
This paper argues that the need for a core “fourth pillar” of sustainability/sustainable development, as demanded in …, evaluating and correlating values-related dimensions of sustainability. It is advocated that those involved in operationalizing … sustainability (especially in the context of creating post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals), should explore the potential for …
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Towards Sustainable Consumption: Economics and Ethical Concerns for the Environment in Consumer Choices
Paavola, Jouni - In: Review of Social Economy 59 (2001) 2, pp. 227-248
The article examines individual action informed by ethical concerns for the environment as a strategy for moving toward more sustainable consumption. The article first employs a model of rational choice to analyze independent consumer choices among the usually assumed self- and welfare-centered...
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